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why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side? he answerd, the desire of raising other men into a perception of the infinite this is the North American tribes practise. I also asked Isaiah what made him go naked and barefoot three years? he answerd, the same that made our friend Diogenes the Grecian. After dinner I ask'd Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works, he said none of equal value was lost. I heard this with some wonder, & must confess my own conviction.

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This said he, like all firm persuasions, is come to pass, for all nations believe the jews code and worship the jews god, and what greater subjection can be that we cursed in his name all the deities of surrounding nations, and asserted that they had rebelled from these opinions the vulgar came to think that all nations would at last be subject to the jews. that our great poet King David desired so fervently & invokes so patheticly, saying by this he conquers enemies & governs kingdoms and so we loved our God. would at last be proved to originate in ours & to be the tributaries of the Poetic Genius, it was this. The philosophy of the east taught the first principles of human perception some nations held one principle for the origin & some another, we of Israel taught that the Poetic Genius (as you now call it) was the first principle and the others merely derivative, which was the cause of our despising the Priests & Philosophers of other countries, and prophecying that all Gods He replied, All poets believe that it does, & in ages of imagination this firm persuasion removed mountains but many are not capable of a firm persuasion of any thing. Then I asked: does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so? I saw no God, nor heard any, in any finite organical perception but my senses discover'd the infinite in every thing, and as I was then persuaded, & remain confirm'd that the voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I cared not for consequences but wrote. that God spoke to them and whether they did not think at the time, that they would be misunderstood, & so be the cause of imposition, The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to assert. To create a little flower is the labour of ages. lift up thy head!Īs the catterpiller chooses the fairest leaves to layer her eggs on, so the priest lays his curse on the fairest joys. When thou seest an Eagle, thou seest a portion of Genius. If others had not been foolish, we should be so. The thankful reciever bears a plentiful harvest. The apple tree never asks the beech how he shall grow, nor the lion, the horse how he shall take his prey. The weak in courage is strong in cunning. The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of water, the beard of earth. Listen to the fools reproach! it is a kingly title! You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. The tygers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction

He who has suffered you to impose on him knows you.Īs the plow follows words, so God rewards prayers. Think in the morning, Act in the noon, Eat in the evening, Sleep in the night. The fox provides for himself, but God provides for the lion. as when he submitted to learn of the crow. The cistern contains: the fountain overflowsĪlways be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you.Įvery thing possible to be believd is an image of truth. The rat, the mouse, the fox, the rabbet watch the roots, the lion, the tyger, the horse, the elephant, watch the fruits. What is now proved was once, only imagind. & the sullen frowning fool, shall be both thought wise. The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship. The roaring of lions, the howling of wolves, the raging of the stormy sea, and the destructive sword, are portions of eternity too great for the eye of man. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.Įxcess of sorrow laughs. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The pride of the peacock is the glory of God. Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion.